Short answer: rush the town center only up to each building gate, dump surplus Truegold into high-value War Academy lines while you wait on timers, and time your biggest upgrades to land inside building-point events. Never sit on a full Truegold bar with idle research queues.
The loop: build to the gate → research what the gate unlocked → bank for the next gate → spend during events. Repeat three times and TG8 is a schedule, not a dream.
How Building Gates Work
Each TG tier gates its upgrades behind prerequisite buildings and research. That means raw Truegold isn't enough — upgrading early just leaves you staring at locked buttons.
- Check the next tier's requirements before finishing the current one, so prerequisite buildings are already climbing while your timers run.
- If a gate demands research you haven't started, that's your queue: research first, build second.
War Academy Research Order
| Priority | Research Line | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Your main march's troop-class attack & lethality | Direct march power; compounds into every event score |
| 2nd | Troop health/defense for the same class | Keeps your expensive troops alive to fight again |
| 3rd | Gathering & economy as filler | Cheap queue-fillers between combat timers |
| Last | Classes you don't march with | Real power later, zero power now |
A higher town center with hollow research produces weaker marches than a lower center with finished combat lines. When in doubt, the research wins.
Event Timing: Score Twice Per Upgrade
Building and research events award points for activity during the window. The discipline that separates strong accounts:
- Bank enough Truegold (and speedups) to complete at least one meaningful upgrade during the event, not before it.
- Chain a research completion and a building upgrade in the same window when possible — double dip.
- After the event ends, go back to cheap filler upgrades and rebuild the bank.
Common Mistakes
- Rushing the center past its research. You unlock tiers you can't actually fight in.
- Spending Truegold the day it drops. Every off-event upgrade is points someone else banks.
- Ignoring prerequisite buildings until they block the gate. Prereqs should be climbing while main timers run.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Truegold used for?
Late-game town center upgrades and the War Academy research behind them. Both draw from the same stockpile, so spending order decides your progression speed.
Rush the town center or finish research first?
Rush to each gate, pause, let research catch up. Finished combat tech beats an impressive-but-hollow town center every time.